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Saturday Night Contest - The Carrot Cake Challenge

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ZachMueller

ZachMueller

Aug 31, 2007
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Hey everyone, today is Saturday, and it's time for another round of our Saturday Night Contests. This week, inspired by our Expose segment with Daniel Garcia yesterday - and his birthday - we're hosting a challenge to create a trick. Here's how it works:

Daniel Garcia is phenomenally talented at creating powerful tricks using normal, everyday objects - from bills to cards to coins, and even cell phones. Your challenge tonight is to create a new, original trick of your own using objects around your house. You can use anything that's in your house right now to create your trick: paperclips, bills, water bottles, rice, or Pop Tarts. Whatever you want. The more creative, the better.

You have 24 hours to create, practice, and FILM your effect. Once you're ready, post a link to your video in response to this forum thread. The deadline is tomorrow, Sunday, at 7:30pm EST. Our winner this week will take home 1,000 Elite Member Points and a Daniel Garcia Prize Package: Pressure, FIVE, and Symphony. Effects will be judged based on creativity and overall impact.

Good luck, everyone! Now, go make some magic happen!

- Zach Mueller
 
Improved handiling for 8 ball

I REFILMED IT SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT IT CAN EASILY BE DONE IN LIVE PERFORMANCE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIJbFkM07Ac&feature=youtu.be
 
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That was cool but you kept dropping your hands out of frame in which I knew something was up, the idea is nice but you have to realize how unnatural it looks to take your hand out of frame and then all of a sudden be there.
 
hey zack ....big fan ..........i see you online so can you answer that's will make my day ....please say anything
 
i have now modified the handling,and now it is 100 % doable in real life,but obviously,you have to be aware of your angles (not as bad as you think)
 
Awesome

[video=youtube;HSNK-dPZKKE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNK-dPZKKE[/video]


Any candy with a wrapper
 
Here's my entry to this awesome contest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7N6q_rM5bM&feature=youtu.be

A three phase Paperclip on Rubberband routine, you can perform in the real world, I came up with exactly 8 hours ago ;)
Even though the performance is not perfect, I still hope you enjoy it...
With a little bit of practise there are always some improvements possible.

Pros:

No fancy gimmicks (There's a small "thing" involved, that everyone has laying around the house)
Not limited to Rubberbands (Do it with Paperclips, Headphones, Strings, ... )
Pretty good angles (Actually there's one bad angle, but this not a problem ;) )
Left completely examinable
The Clip is really on the Rubberband
No invisible thread
No frame Dropping (of course)
No camera tricks (obviously)
Fun to perform

Good luck everyone, even though I hope soo much, that ... ;)

- Konrad
 
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